Writing Effective Found Family Films (Part 1)
Found Family films are not new, but you may not have explicitly heard the term before. It simply means a film featuring groups of people who are not genetically or legally related and joined by circumstances to try and accomplish a common story goal by the end. These movies cross many genres, but common themes […]
New Storytelling Paradigms – Crots And Fractals (Part 2)
Crots A crot is defined as a piece of story. I’m not sure you can get away with seemingly unrelated pieces of story, but imagine if you could throw small vignettes on the screen that will then form the whole. Like a jigsaw puzzle tossed willy-nilly on a board and you must put it […]
New Storytelling Paradigms – Meander and Explode (Part 1)
I am a curmudgeonly sort when it comes to change. And I tend not to like trends because they mostly don’t stand the test of time. Social media? A flash in the pan. Okay, so I was wrong about that one – big time. But these so-called “New Hollywood Structures” leave me as cold as […]
12 Ways To Get Your Script to the YES Pile (Part 2)
7) Sleight Of Structure Sharper took story setups to a different level by having four stand-alone segments that laid the foundations of the characters, their stories, and the plot, and then delivered an interesting ending in the fifth segment. It’s bold and unique. Whether you liked it or not, you have to admire the vision […]
12 Ways To Get Your Script to the YES Pile (Part 1)
You’ve seen it yourself, I’m sure. An opening gambit on a movie or TV episode. Expectations are high. You’re intrigued. And then you find your mind wandering – already mentally searching for something else to watch – the promise only to end in disappointment way before the midpoint of the story or episode two of […]
